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UN monitors bring calm to parts of Syria

Posted: 22 Apr 2012 05:13 PM PDT


BEIRUT -- The deployment of U.N. truce monitors brought a lull in shelling of the Syrian opposition stronghold of Homs for a second day Sunday while President Bashar Assad's troops kept up heavy attacks on other areas where observers were not prese ...

US, Afghanistan come to agreement on strategic pact

Posted: 22 Apr 2012 05:13 PM PDT


KABUL, Afghanistan -- The U.S. and Afghanistan reached a deal Sunday on a long-delayed strategic partnership agreement that ensures Americans will provide military and financial support to the Afghan people for at least a decade beyond 2014, the de ...

French election headed to runoff

Posted: 22 Apr 2012 05:13 PM PDT


PARIS -- Socialist Francois Hollande and conservative President Nicolas Sarkozy are heading for a runoff election in their race for France's presidency, according to partial official results in a vote that could alter the European political and eco ...

Iran claims to get data from U.S. drone

Posted: 22 Apr 2012 05:13 PM PDT

TEHRAN, Iran -- Iran claimed Sunday that it had recovered data from an American spy drone that went down in Iran last year, including information that the aircraft was used to spy on Osama bin Laden weeks before he was killed. Iran also said it was b ...

Spain battling bride shortage

Posted: 22 Apr 2012 05:13 PM PDT


CANDELEDA, Spain -- Country boy, meet city girl.
Inspired by a Hollywood western, a Spanish dating association is trying to slow a population drain from the country's beleaguered central villages, introducing bachelors to women bussed in from the ...

Sincere commitment: Two years later, Sean Penn still working in Haiti

Posted: 21 Apr 2012 05:00 PM PDT


PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- Sean Penn no longer lives in a tent, surrounded by some 40,000 desperate people camped on a muddy golf course. And he no longer rushes about the capital with a Glock pistol tucked in his waistband, hefting bags of donated r ...

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